A stack of golden pancakes with butter melting on top and syrup dripping down the sides — the pancakes emoji is the picture of a fluffy weekend breakfast. It stands in more broadly for cozy, indulgent comfort food that's worth sleeping in for.
What 🥞 means
A stack of about five round, fluffy and thin cakes that are enticingly golden brown on the upper layer (of each), with a slice of butter and some syrup (mostly maple or honey) dripping all over the stack.
The 🥞 Pancakes emoji signify dessert, breakfast, and food in general. But, they can also be another word for 'flat'. It can suggest a sense of being two dimensional, characterless, flat, and overall, boring.
How and when to use it
- If you had pancakes for breakfast and you're texting someone about it, you can use 🥞 in that context.
- Now, that's a generic and boring usage of 🥞. Use this emoji to signify being flat. For instance, "Dude. I've oiled my hair so much, it went from being a nest to being a frikkin' flattened tree, wtf 🥞".
- If you're posting or reposting anything related to pancakes; a mouth-watering picture, a video about creative pancake ideas, etc, you can use 🥞 in all those post captions.
- 🥞 can also be used to refer to someone or something who doesn't have much character - like, "Why did I even come with you??! He has everything but substance! 🥞".
Other Names
- 🥞 Hotcakes
- 🥞 Flapjacks
- 🥞 Griddlecake
- 🥞 Filled Pancakes
- 🥞 Blini
- 🥞 Flat as a Pancake
- 🥞 Flat Cake
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-prepared
- Codepoints
U+1F95E- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:pancakes:- Keywords
- breakfast, crêpe, food, hotcake, pancake, pancakes
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥞 Pancakes or 💓 Beating Heart?
Runs with a crowd
🥞 keeps company in food emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.